... Wynter’s interrogation of dominant worldviews of both humanism and an approach to environments. Copyright © 2020 Smith College 2020 Caribbean literature tourism humanism Jamaica Kincaid Dominant Western subjects, arguably Jamaica Kincaid’s primary audience for A Small Place , often...

... the week the ship stays in port. The Commissioner of Tourism calculates that the navy personnel spend around U.S. $1,000,000 on each visit. (1999, 209) The stationing of UN peacekeeping troops in Haiti during the 1990s also raised questions about a renewed arena for prostitution activities, and HIV/AIDS...

...," Clifford's "discrepant cosmopolitanism," and Robbins's situated "cosmopolitics," the tensions of an increasingly globalized economy in the midst of nationalist resurgences can be identified, often through narratives of displacement or diaspora as well as tourism and exile (Rabinow 1986; Clifford 1997...

... in Hawaiʻi, especially through the image of the hula girl perpetuated by the tourism industry (Trask 1999 : 136–47). When settler colonialism circulates as a theory primarily attributed to and advanced by white male scholars (however productive or well-intentioned their work may be), understandings...

..." recontextualize this journey as a representation of neo-colonialism through tourism. At this point in the narrative, the little girl, for all her cultural curiosity, is as uninvolved in the life of the island as one of the inanimate objects she accompanies, and it is difficult to decipher whether or not she...

... against women of color came together to discuss the impact of globalization on women of color within and outside the U.S. Panelist Kamala Kempadoo spoke about sex work and tourism within the global economy and the violence women endure within the tourism sex work industry. There was also much discussion...

... relations with the rest of the world-its goals remained consonant with past rulers. (Des Chene 1996, 263-26+4) Thus, although Nepal was never directly colonized, as an agriculturallybased, cultural tourism-promoting, debtor nation with a large bureaucracy assertive in legitimating itself by promoting...

..., or child, trying desperately to escape the school-to-tourism-industry pipeline. Do not tell the story of Native Hawaiians yearning for their rights to their land. In short, do not tell a full story. Whitewash us. Ignore us. Use us. We are accustomed to it. ABOUT THE AUTHOR LeilaniRaniaGanseris a Kanaka...

..., related efforts also targeted areas of tourism and health. For example, a Tourism Police was created in 1959 to attend to foreign tourism, fundamentally North American. Although prostitution was never officially outlawed by the government, public health initiatives prohibited the practice until a woman...

... desired by African Americans, to consider locations in the southern United States and South America. Chapter 2 uses participant observation to demonstrate how Ghanaian public policies shape heritage tourism by tailoring historical sites for Black diasporic visitors. Commander ( 2017 , 89) alerts us...

... to engage in open protest against these measures. In Southeast Asia and throughout the Americas, as well as in Europe, sex work has become a site for discussions about the interconnections amongst tourism, militarism, migration, and masculinity. In the Third World, policies of population control created...

... penetration of Brazil through the highway. The roadside bars along the Trans-Amazonian Highway serve as the places of sexual union between the marginalized North and the prospering South. The TransAmazonian Highway as an imaginary border produces and becomes a source of sex tourism. This sexual market...

... discourses and practices, such as travel writing and tourism, Black Atlantic and transatlantic criticism, new diaspora studies, migration, and cosmopolitanism. 2. See McKittrick's discussions of Black women's geographies in DemoniGc rounds (2006). 3. See Brown's discussion of these figurations of the ship...

...). Residents and visitors to the Hawaiian Islands lived surrounded by the ocean, beaches, dramatic mountains and canyons, lush greenery, and changeable tropical weather. However, the state’s main economic activities centered on agribusiness, the U.S. military, and tourism. All three industries emerged through...

... through Cultural Tourism," Andrea Louie points to the fact that Chinese in the diaspora must reconstruct an image of China if they are to connect with their points of cultural and personal origin (2003). She draws on cultural critic Stuart Hall's salient point that the homeland and the role it plays...

... the links between violence within the United States and violence conducted in the international arena, such as that which occurs in border crossings, sex tourism, and the workings of multinational capitalism. The importance of developing alliances globally was highlighted throughout the conference. What...

... park; it would perhaps do well on the north coast where it would fit in beautifully with the wooden sculptures in Fern Gully that vulgarly portrays the Jamaican penis (homo erectus); where nude weddings are becoming an annual event, where sex tourism is a thriving business and the mystique of the "big...

... the party. Like many other artists, tourism ads, and ordinary citizens, Hinds's music represents Barbados as a place of relaxation and release, bordering on enforcing historical myths and stereotypes of the Caribbean region as a tropical paradise. Her music, however, does not dismiss the pressures...

... imagined as “pure” that had been transformed because of processes of colonialism (Rosaldo 1989 ). The imperialist nostalgia that haunts these ads can be seen through, for example, the “Hawaiian Tropic” ad, which at a glance resembles a tourism brochure. In this ad an almost fully-naked woman with medium...

... about 17, 18years ago. I've watched the little island transform into a modernized place complete with sex tourism and all sorts of pollution, and lots of unbridled investment and stuff. That's kind of what this book I'm writing now is about. JW:Does it have a title yet? AL: It's called RedIslandHouseand...